The Techknitter actually prefers DPNs to Magic Loop. (I personally will use either.) Too bad you're not near enough to me, I'll bet if someone just showed you how to do it in person, you'd get it in about 30 seconds...

Sewing up seams. I am so glad to find much more info on knitting in the round. When I first started knitting many years ago, there wasn't a lot of info or patterns for knitting top down or bottom up and I hated sewing sweater pieces together. I ended up doing most of them on the sewing machine.

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I am not a fan of lace simply because I don't like having to follow a pattern so precicely!! I am working on one tho, but it keeps getting shelved because I get bored... it will be a beautiful table cloth when finished (perhaps in 10 yrs)